Quotes from Salvador Dali

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

It is either easy or impossible.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

I do not believe in my death.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.